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Museum · Nekozane (Urayasu)

Urayasu City Folk Museum 浦安市郷土博物館

A free museum about Urayasu before Disney: a fishing town of clams and nori, recreated outdoors as a walk-in 1952 streetscape with a fishermans house, boatyard, sento-style shops and real bekabune boats.

Hours9:30-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
ClosedMondays, day after holidays, end-of-month weekday, New Year
PriceFree
Getting thereUrayasu Station (Tozai Line) or Shin-Urayasu Station (JR Keiyo Line), bus to Shiyakusho-mae
Time needed1 hour
Best timeWeekends (volunteer activities)
Address1-2-7 Nekozane, Urayasu, Chiba
Websitecity.urayasu.lg.jp/kanko/hakubutsukan

About

Until the 1960s Urayasu was a fishing town where most families gathered clams and farmed nori in the shallows of Tokyo Bay; land reclamation, the end of fishing rights and Tokyo Disneyland changed it utterly. This museum by the city hall tells that story. The highlight is the outdoor "Town of Urayasu", a full-scale reconstruction of streets around 1952 with relocated houses, a tempura shop, a boatbuilders workshop, a tobacco shop and wells, where volunteers in summer may let kids try games or show crafts. Indoors, the boat gallery has real bekabune (the flat one-person boats used to gather shellfish, also known from the novelist Shugoro Yamamotos Aobeka Monogatari). Entry is free, which makes it an excellent detour on a Disney trip.

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